The Butcher: Omnibus - Softcover

Reyes, Alina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099288680 ISBN 13: 9780099288688

Publisher: Vintage, 1999

Synopsis

In THE FATAL BODICE, Lucile finds loads of stockings stored in jars. The neighbour, Hughes, paints her nude, but rejects her advances. Opposite in a shop window there is a bodice, an erotic artefact but also a symbol of constriction and self containment. . . . in THE BUTCHER a young girl goes to work in a butcher's shop during her college holiday. Every day the butcher whispers obscenities into her ear, describing her imagined lovemaking. And as the summer heat takes hold, so does her lust. . . . LUCIE'S LONG VOYAGE is about a young women off to visit a friend in the mountains. She gets lost in the high peaks and ends up living in a cave with a bear. Isolated from civilization, she begins to live like a wild animal, and she and the bear become lovers. . . . These short novels are all erotic, poetic journeys of self-discover y. Alina Reyes explores the mysteries of sexuality and the multiple identities of women.

About this title

Review:

'Fleshy, beautiful and obscene' -- Evening Standard

Book Description:

'Fleshy, beautiful and obscene' Evening Standard The explosive international bestseller of sex, flesh and naked desire

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099288680
• ISBN 13: 9780099288688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304